hardware requirement

Hi all,

I have a question regarding hardware requirements of a virtual machine. Last week we had a livestream with 150 concurrent viewers at 1.6Mbit/sec. The server is on a 1GB line so bandwidth was not an issue.

when we reach the 130 concurrent viewers the video was pauzed every 5 seconds. While the audio was still going al long. Sometimes the complete stream stopped for a couple of seconds..

We are running Wowza on Ubuntu 14 in VirtualBox

2 CPU

4GB memory

Network: 1Gb Ethernet (shared)

Should this be enough to handle 150 concurrent viewers? And what kind of hardware is needed to server 800 mbit's of data?

You will have to test your actual server/network using the
load test tool, or monitoring utilization in production. You must be
properly tuned. And to achieve maximum levels you may have to tune your server and network in other ways outside Wowza.

I talked to the datacenter and they told me there was plenty of bandwidth left. I guess it has something to do with the hardware then. I will try to tune the machine and use the load test tool. Thanks in advance.

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